>> dump them in the front garden next to the old mattress and cooker
Babies are squalid little brutes, although one can hardly blame them for it. Young parents can easily get to feel that they are living in the middle of the world's biggest crap dump. But well- treated babies soon grow out of it. They don't want to be a source of irritation. They want food, treats and interesting information.
Some here may have experienced real nappies, gauze and towelly stuff. They are more comfortable than early disposables which tended to chafe when wet. There was some stuff you put them in a bucket with to dissolve the worst of the crap. Believe me, those buckets really needed the tight-fitting lids they came with.
Clumsy young mothers also ran the permanent risk of stabbing their nippers with the huge safety pins needed for proper nappies.
There are compensations to being past childbearing age.
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